Bag-lock



(No Mod e1.)

A. GOERTZ.

- BAG LOCK. No. 310,413. Patented Jan. 6,1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @EETCE.

AUGUST GOERTZ, OF NE\VARK, NE\V JERSEY.

BAG-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,413, dated January 6, 1885.

Application filed September 1, 1884. (X0 model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that 1, AUGUST Gonn'rz, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag and Satchel Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, rcferencebeinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to secure the sections of a bag-frame together to facilitate the operation of opening the said frame and to improve the appearance of the lock.

It consists in the arrangements and combinations of parts, substantially as will be here inafter set forth, and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate correspoudingparts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bag-frame having my improvements therein. Fig. 2 is a modified form thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail plan of the frame, showing the lock. Fig. 4 is a plan of the under side of the lock. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are sectional views taken through lines :12, y, and z, respectively,of Fig. 3. Fig. 8 is asectional view through m, Fig. 1; and Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively detail views of the lock-bolt and a spring in said lock to give return motion to a finger-piece thereof.

In said drawings,- a c are sections of an ordinary bag or satchel frame. A is the lock or catch, and B the handle of said frame.

To facilitate the opening of the bag, or to render the process more convenient, I arrange a spring-catch on the frame, the hand-piece of which is adapted to operate, in opening the bag, at a right angle to said frame, or in a plane with the finger'piece b on the section opposite that carrying the lock. By this construction the draft of one hand on the said finger-piece of the lock or catch will be in an op posite direction to the draft of the other-hand on the thumb-piecc b of the said opposite section, so that the same movements of the hands that result in separating the said sections of the frame unfasten the bag-catch, as will be understood.

The peculiar arrangements of parts in the construction of the lock that I prefer, but to which I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself, are shown more fullyin the several detail figures, in which (Z is a loelecase, having therein a longitudinally-sliding bolt, 0, a spring, f,to give return motion to the bolt, and a spring, 9, to give return motion to the finger-piece 0. Said bolt c engages with the ordinary hasps, h, to hold the same in any usual way. Upon said lock-case is secured, by suitable staples or other pivotal stays, 17, Figs. 1, 5, and 7, a rocking shaft, j, which is disposed longitudinally with relation to the said case, the ends of the shaft being ornamented and the said staples being secured or arranged in recessed members of the ornaments. The thu1nb-piece 0, before mentioned, is secured in said shaft, and by it said shaft may be moved pivot-ally in said staples in a direction at right angles to said frame, said finger-piece moving with said shaft in said direction for the purpose before given. The shaft is provided on the under side with a projection, is, Figs. 4, 6, and 7, which works with the shaft in a transverse slot in the lock-case, (shown in Fig. 4,) and engages an inclined end of the bolt 0. A transverse movement of said projection against the inclined end gives a longi tudinal movement to the said bolt, whereby it is thrown from holding engagement with the hasps. The end spring, f, returns the bolt automatically to a point of holding engagement with the hasp, and the spring 9 presses against the projection k, and gives back movement to the finger-piece and rocking shaft 0 andj. The staples z' are of wire, and the ends thereof are riveted in perforations in the lockcase.

There are novel features shown in the drawings in connection with the handle; but these probably will be fully described and claimed in a separate application.

Having thus described my inventiomwhat I claim as new is- 1. In combination with a bag-frame, a a, a lock or catch having a transversely-moving finger-piece, or one having the finger-piece move in a direction at right angles to the frame in opening the bag, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the sections a a of a bag-frame, the lock having a longitudinallysliding bolt and atl'ansversely-nloving fingerpieee to actuate the same, substantially as set forth.

3. In combination with the sections a a of a bag or satchel frame, the lock having the bolt, a rock-shaft provided with a projection to engage said bolt, and a finger-piece, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination with sections a a of a bagfrainc, the lock-case having catching mechanism therein, a rocking shaft secured on the outside ofsaid case and operating said mech j, having projection 70, and finger-piece c, all.

said parts being arranged and operating sub stantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of August, 1884:.

AUGU S'l G OERIZ. \V i tnesses CHARLES H. PELL,

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